Re: [nukkad] the recent catastrophe

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Dear Dr. Gupta,

Your e-mail to your son made for some (to put it mildly) interesting reading.

For a slightly different view point about Americans - here is an editorial from a Canadian newspaper. I am quite sure you will not identify with this foolish Westerner (materialistic idiot that he is). But it is still a perspective.

And Thank God for SOME people that think like this. The rest of the world is so thankless. All they want is for America to give give give.

>TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES

> This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
> America: The Good Neighbor.
>
> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given
> recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from
> Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television
> Commentator. What follows is the full text of his
> trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional
> Record:
>
> "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the
> Americans as the most generous and possibly the
> least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany,
> Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy
> were lifted out of the debris of war by the
> Americans who poured in billions of dollars and
> forgave other billions in debts.
>
> None of these countries is today paying even the
> interest on its remaining debts to the United
> States. When France was in danger of collapsing in
> 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and
> their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the
> streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
>
> When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the
> United States that hurries in to help. This spring,
> 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes.
> Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman
> Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged
> countries. Now newspapers in those countries are
> writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
>
> I'd like to see just one of those countries that is
> gloating over the erosion of the United States
> dollar build its own airplane. Does any other
> country in the world have a plane to equal the
> Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the
> Douglas DC10?
>
> If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the
> International lines except Russia fly American
> planes? Why does no other land on earth even
> consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You
> talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios.
> You talk about German technocracy, and you get
> automobiles. You talk about American technocracy,
> and you find men on the moon - not once, but several
> times - and safely home again.
>
> You talk about scandals, and the Americans put
> theirs right in the store window for everybody to
> look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued
> and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most
> of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are
> getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to
> spend here.
>
> When the railways of France, Germany and India were
> breaking down through age, it was the Americans who
> rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the
> New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an
> old caboose. Both are still broke.
>
> I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced
> to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name
> me even one time when someone else raced to the
> Americans in trouble? I don't think there was
> outside help even during the San Francisco
> earthquake.
>
>
> Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one
> Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get
> kicked around. They will come out of this thing
> with their flag high. And when they do, they are
> entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are
> gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada
> is not one of those."
>
> Stand proud, America! Wear it proudly!!

-----Original Message-----
From: "Mahesh chandra Gupta" 
Date: 12 Sep 2001 19:17:51 -0000
> Dear friends,
> The topic I touch here is too traumatic and emotional to be capable of being
> considered unbiasedly by many. So i am not speaking a word about it. But,
> since I can't even keep quiet, as a via media, I am giving below a copy of
> the mail i have sent to my son in USA. [ a la, parda uthate bhi nahin aur
> awaaz bhi dete hain].
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> ----------------------------------
> 
> Dear Maneesh,
> Hope everything is OK. I do not know your views. They are likely to be of
> variance with mine. But mine are similar to those of many learned friends to
> whom I have spoken. These are as follows;
> 
> 1. We are sorry for the civilian lives lost. We are totally against
> terrorism.
> 
> 2. USA had become pathologically arrogant because of its own might, military
> and financial. They thought they are next to god and the world and the
> humanity have been placed at their feet by god himself for favour of
> patrolling as a global watchman, with right to take any action that they
> deem fit against anybody.
> 
> 3. It is not a tussle between US and an organization. It is a tussle between
> materialism and faith; between the east and the west.
> 
> 4. Faith and spiritualism will always prove more powerful than materialism.
> East rose before the west; it will survive the west.
> 
> Papa
> Sept 12
> 
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